Coach Drew Haugh has said that his Boys' Latin wrestling team has seen enough.
"Put up or shut up," Haugh said. "They had made it their mission to not just wrestle their opponents this year, but take a stab at wrestling against cancer."
The Lakers took on a pink team theme and vowed to raise money for breast cancer awareness.
Until Tuesday night, the Lakers had raised little, this, until after the Lakers had committed to a New Years resolution to change the culture in the room and to wrestle with a purpose.
The wives of the coaches painted spray-painted a bucket pink. Coach Haugh scrawled on the bucket, in black sharpie pen, "Think Pink."
Pink dollar bills were placed within the bucket, and the wrestlers were told that throughout the year, whenever one of them earned six points -- or a pin, forfeit or injury default -- they could come directly to Haugh and collect a 10 dollars. (Artificial money, that is).
"Their goal, by season's end, is to fill the bucket with at least fifty pink bills. Whatever the total is at the end of the season, the Boys' Latin wrestling team is going to make this donation to the breast cancer society," Haugh said.
"Unfortunately, opening up against Archbishop Curley didn't help their cause," said Haugh, whose Lakers lost to the Friars, 69-3. "By the end of the match, the bucket remained empty of 10 dolllar bills."
But each of the Lakers' wrestlers empty bucket before their second match of the night against Annapolis Area Christian, and 2 minutes, 11 seconds into the first bout -- at 130 pounds -- Michael Floccare decked his opponent -- good for $10.
The Lakers wound up dropping $90 into the bucket by night's end, Haugh said, thanks to three more falls, four forfeits and an injury default.
